Sonic persuasion : reading sound in the recorded age / Greg Goodale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodale, Greg, 1966-

Series:

Studies in sensory history.

Studies in sensory history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound--Recording and reproducing--United States--History.

Sound.

Sound recordings--Social aspects--United States--History.

Sound recordings.

Persuasion (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 189 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age critically analyzes a range of sounds on vocal and musical recordings, on the radio, in film, and in cartoons to show how sounds are used to persuade in subtle ways. Greg Goodale explains how and to what effect sounds can be "read" like an aural text, demonstrating this method by examining important audio cues such as dialect, pausing, and accent in presidential recordings at the turn of the twentieth century. Goodale also shows how clocks, locomotives, and machinery are utilized in film and literature to represent frustration and anxiety about modernity, and how race and other forms of identity came to be represented by sound during the interwar period. In highlighting common sounds of industry and war in popular media, Sonic Persuasion also demonstrates how programming producers and governmental agencies employed sound to evoke a sense of fear in listeners. Goodale provides important links to other senses, especially the visual, to give fuller meaning to interpretations of identity, culture, and history in sound.

Contents:

Reading sound

Fitting sounds

Machine mouth

The race of sound

Sounds of war

On sound criticism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613060013

9781283060011

1283060019

9780252093203

0252093208

OCLC:

741558444